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New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale catalogue is now available on-line and on the free iPad application.
The auction will be held at Karaka on November 22 and 23 with breeze-ups at Te Rapa on October 16 and 17.
The most successful sale of its kind in Australasia, it has celebrated 110 stakes wins in the past five seasons alone, nearly double the number of its closest competitor.
Graduates of the sale have won 19 Group 1 races in the same time, cementing its position as a prolific producer of successful racehorses.
Headlined by the recent Group One-winning performances of Gingernuts and Hall of Fame, graduates have won the Rosehill Guineas, New Zealand Derby, Levin Classic, Futurity Stakes, Emirates Stakes, New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas, Caulfield Cup, Australian Derby, Easter Handicap, Haunui Farm Classic, Hong Kong Mile, Stradbroke Handicap, Auckland Cup, International Stakes and Victoria Derby.
Siblings to Group One winners Adventador, Savaria, Sofia Rosa, Magic Cape, Zabrasive, Able One, Kawi, Silent Achiever, Brambles and King Mufhasa and to the Group One-placed Strada Cavallo, Allez Eagle, Fazzle, Formality, Frolic and Kabayan will go under the hammer.
This year’s auction will feature 437 two-year-olds, representing 117 sires from New Zealand and Australia, with catalogues due to be in the mail next week.